The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

the vines and receives 81 pound Tor Uhe OIL
IT is estimated that the presses of the Eng
lish, French and German nationalities turn
out nearly $1,000 distinct works every year
A NEW SUPPLY of natural gas has been found
in Western Pennsylvania $50 feet below the ex-
pounds
YOUNG EDWIN GOULD, the second son of the
great hnancier, has just turned p, and been
elected a director of the Western Union Tele-
graph Company.
TIE names of thirty-six widows of soldiers
| who served in the revolutionary war are stil
on the rolls of the Pension Office The average
age of the pensioners is s214 years.
AN 1Syear-old youth of AxteI, Kan, has
seventeen nephews and nieces, and boy OF II
is uncle to twenty seven persons, all living. Two
have died, making the number twenty-nine
NEAR Coal Canyon, Cal, is mammoth fig
tree, measuring 1O2 inches in circumference
four feet from the ground. 1t has four immense
branches, each OF which exceeds % inches IN
circumference.
A YOUNG WOMAN of Michigan has sued her re-
calctrant lover for 5000 900 for damages
to her heart and 81 900 for her bridal trousseau.
Affections are seen to be worth just twice as
much as clothes.
THE Lloima volcano in Araucania, in Chill,
has recently been in eruption, The lava and
would cause a landslide, compelled the picket
stationed there to move off about two leagues.
STELLA DAVIS, a young woman living at Fort
Saunders, w. T., appropriated horse, saddle,
and wedding dress and started out to see the
country last week. She reached Laramie in
time to be welcomed and cared for by the
Sheriff.
AT WEST POINT there is dog which belongs
| to the band and every afternoon at dress parade
| the dog stations himself near the cannon which
is fired at sunset. The dog watches lntentlY tof
| the discharge, and then starts down the hill to
| look for the ball. This he has done for yeals.
The Project of Guayaquil, Ecuador, has issued
decree imposing fine of from 81 to $50 upon
all persons using the telephones for the purpose
| of sending chatting or immoral messages This
decree was rendered necessary by messages of
an improper character being frequently sent
through the wires.
THERE is a rumor in the American colony in
| Paris that Count and Countess Telfener have
separated. Countess Telfener is the younger
sister of Mrs. Mackay and on her marriage
with the Count she received a handsome dowry
| from her brother in-law, Mr. Mackay. The par
ties have not been living together for some time
| past.
THE Garrison cemetery of the old British fort
at Crown Point N. Y, unused since the days of
| the French and Indian wars, bas been gradually
| denuded of its tombstones by predatory farm
| eTS until Dllt Two remain ten. JOln hammond,
| Of Crown Point, has recently had these two
removed to the village park, where they can
receive the care which their historical interest
merits.
Mrs. GEN. GRANT, the New York World says
has been quietly making arrangements to dis
pose of her house on Sixty-sixth street. 1t is a
valuable property. but she wishes to have its
value in some form where she can divide it
| among her sons and give them the benefit of it,
| One of her projects in this directioAwas to ex
change the property for three less Variable ones
| which her sons might occupy
New HAVEN was invaded by a flock of birds
the other evening from to IL O'Clock
| Thrushes linnets catbrds, and even humming
| birds thronged about the electric lights, and
many of them entered stores and dwellings, and
| were caught. The only explanation offered was
| that flocks of these birds flying southwark were
attracted by the bright electric lights and fool
ishly stepped in their long journey
A STRANGE NEGRO appeared in New Haven on
Monday, and announced himself as the steward
| of George Goud's yacht. He said the yacht
was in that port, with Mr.. Gould, Mrs. Gould,
| the baby, and party on board, including Mr..
| Macy, the dry goods man of Fourteenth street.
| and Jay Gouds nephew Timothy all bound
| for Havana. The negro ordered large bill of
| supplies to be sent aboard, and then disap-
| peared.
AGITATION for a revolution in the manner of
addressing mail matter is going on in Chicago.
/ Inc new plan PROVIDES Tor the reverse OF the
| present order of addressing instead of the
persons name coming first that of the country.
| followed by the State, then city and street. and
| last the persons name. The Chicago Tribune
| has interviewed many post office attaches on
| the scheme, and, while several approve of it on
| the score that it would expedite in casing
| others pronounce it worthless.
| A NEW MARRIAGE Law went into effect in
Michigan last Wednesday which is already
causing trouble. 1t provides that licenses must
be issued in the county where one of the parties
| resides. This prevents clippers from getting
| married i'll the State. Even foreigners are
affected, for Canadian couple who came to
Detroit to be welded were refused a license. In
| vain the groom protested that the law applied
| only to residents of the State. The clerk was
| obdurate, and the couple had to recroSs the
| line.
JOHN BUCKLEY of Meriden. Conn, caught a
swapping turtle and took it t. the central tele-
phone office, where hespurposed killing it with
electricity. He let the turtle snap at one end of
the wire, put another wire beneath its she'll and
turned on the full strength of the current
Heavers that he heard the current 90
through it, making noise Ike a small planning
machine, and he left the turtle for dead. The
next morning he found the turtle walking
around and swapping at wires, as though it
wanted another taste of the current,
SHERIDAN POWERS was out hunting one day
last week in the st. Francis river bottoms. near
Wappapello, Mo-, when his attention was drawn
toward the river Dy ana peculiar noise
On arriving on the banks Of the river he disco5-
cred two large turtles fighting in shallow water
a few yards from the bank. He watched the
battle few minutes aud until the larger turtle
drove his antagonist from the field when he
leveled his fowling piece on the remaining one
and shot him through the head. When taken to
town and weighed his turtleship pulled the
beam at 100 pounds
THE process of welding invented by Mr.. De
Benardoz, of Russia, is now applied indusrially
by the Society for the Electrical Working of
Metals. The pieces to be welded are placed
upon a cast iron plate supported by an insulated
table and connected with the negative pole of a
source of electricity The positive pole com
municates with an electric carbon inserted in
an insulating handle. On drawing the point of
the carbon along the edges of the metal to be
welded the operator closes the circuit He has
then merely to raise the point slightly to pro-
duce voltac whose high temperature
mets the two pieces of metal and causes them
to unite.
Col. COKE, Of North Carolina, has the most
comprehensive and impartial war record of any
man in the country. lie began service in the
Southern army; them to protect his Inheritance.
he gained the consent OF the State authorities to
procure a substitute and visit PENNSYLVANIA
Arrived there, he was soon drafted into the
Union army but again procuring substitute
and. letting the two hired patriots fight il out
between them, he went to Europe His record
is thus succnctly summed up by a correspond
ent OF the Boston Herald: He fought on both